Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post , we studied linen cartridges . In today's post, we will study cartridges made of a more exotic material: tinfoil. Yes,...

In our last post , we saw the advances in paper cartridge technology to handle expanding bullets. In today's post, we will study more ad...

In today's post, we will study the causes for inaccuracies when people shoot handguns. There is a handgun shooters chart, that helps sho...

In today's post, we will look at a class of weapon called snubnose revolvers , also sometimes called " belly guns " or " ...

In our last post, we studied a very unusual firearm, the Girandoni Repeating Rifle , which did not use any gunpowder, but was entirely power...

In our last post, we talked about the concept of " cylinder gap ". Briefly, revolvers have a gap between the cylinder and the rear...

In today's post, we will look into the topic of revolvers and firearms safety and also study the concept of cylinder gaps . If the rea...

Fanning a revolver is a technique often used by trick shooters to increase the rate of fire of single action revolvers . In a single action...

In our last post about combined firearms , two of the examples (the whip pistol and King Henry VIII's mace) are also examples of a conce...

In our last discussion, we explored how axes and pistols could be combined together into a single weapon. In this post, we will explore pist...

When we last left off on revolver developments, we'd studied single and double action revolvers and the beginning of metallic cartridge...

With all these discussions about revolvers we've had in the last few posts, one significant factor has been common to all of them. The w...

We have devoted the last few posts to studying revolver firing mechanisms. Now we will spend some time in studying revolver loading mechanis...

In the last few posts, we've studied various types of single-action and double action revolvers. These were not the only types of revol...